H-France Reviews: Volume 13

January Reviews

Ellen R. Welsh, A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011. xxviii + 224 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-61149-062-6.

Review by Sara E. Melzer, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 1

Sean Takats, The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2011. xi + 203pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13: 978-1-4214-0283-3 (hb; alk. pb). ISBN-10:1-4214-0283-1 (hb; alk. pb).

Review by Kathryn Norberg, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 2

Nicole Garnier-Pelle, Anne Foray-Carlier, Marie-Christine Anselm, The Monkeys of Christophe Huet, translated by Sharon Grevet, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2011. 176 pp. 360 color illustrations, Notes, Bibliography $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1 60606-065-0.

Review by Susan Taylor-Leduc, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 3

Natacha Coquery, Tenir boutique à Paris au xviiie siècle: Luxe et demi-luxe. Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS HISTOIRE), 2011. 406 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 28.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7355-0733-7.

Review by Daryl M. Hafter, Eastern Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 4

Daniel Baugh, The Global Seven Years War,1754-1763. London and New York: Pearson Press, 2011. xi + 660 pp. Maps, notes, and index. £24.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 978-0-582-09239-6.

Review by Julia Osman, Mississippi State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 5

Charlotte A. Stanford, Commemorating the Dead in Late Medieval Strasbourg: the Cathedral’s Book of Donors and its Uses (1320-1521). Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. xx + 327 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $124.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1409401-360.

Review by Emilia Jamroziak, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 6

Christopher Braider, The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xii + 339 pages. Plates, figures, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781442643482.

Review by April G. Shelford, American University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 7

Le fil de l'esprit. Augustin Girard, un parcours entre recherche et action.Paris, Collection du Comité d'histoire du ministère de la Culture, 2011. 334 pp. Bibliography, index, and illustrations. 18€. (pb). ISBN: 978-2-11-128143-1.

Review by Jean-Louis Fabiani, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) and Central European University (Budapest).
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 8

Elizabeth Greenhalgh, Foch in Command. The Forging of a First World War General. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xviii + 550 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $110.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-1956-4.

Review by Robert J. Young, University of Winnipeg.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 9

Rosemary O’Neill, Art and Visual Culture on the French Riviera, 1956-1971: the Ecole de Nice. Farnham and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. xii + 258 pp. Figures, notes, select bibliography, and index. $119.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6471-0.

Review by Tania Woloshyn, McGill University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 10

Sarah Betzer, Ingres and the Studio: Women, Painting, History. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-0-271-04875-8.

Review by Barbara Ann Day-Hickman, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 11

Anne Verjus and Denise Davidson, Le roman conjugal: Chroniques de la vie familiale à l’époque de la Révolution et l’Empire. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2011. 342 pp. Figures, list of characters, family trees, notes, and bibliography. 26 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-87673-546-0.

Review by Christine Haynes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 12

Clifford Conner, Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the People. London: Pluto Press, 2012. xiii + 178. Notes and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7453-3194-2; $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7453-3193-5

Review by Stephen Miller, University of Alabama at Birmingham
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 13

Natacha Coquery, Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution 1793-1815. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2012. xxii + 486 pp. Preface, introduction, figures, appendix, musical scores, bibliography, and index. £24.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7083-2461-5; (eb). 978-0-7083-2462-2.

Review by Donald Braid, Butler University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 14

Florence Bourillon et Annie Fourcaut, eds, Agrandir Paris, 1860-1970 Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, Comité d’histoire de la Ville de Paris, 2012. 428 pp. 23.75€. (pb). ISBN: 978-2-85944-695-6

Review by Judith Stone, Western Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 15

Jennifer Tsien, The Bad Taste of Others: Judging Literary Value in Eighteenth-Century France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 268 pp. Notes, works cited, index, acknowledgments. $47.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4359-8.

Review by William Ray, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 16

Paul du Quenoy, Wagner and the French Muse: Music, Society, and Nation in Modern France. Bethesda, Palo Alto, London: Academica Press, 2011. xi + 219 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-930901-80-1.

Review by Margaret Miner, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 17

Philippe R. Girard, The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011. ix + 444 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliographic essay, glossary, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8173-1732-4; $45.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-8173-8540-8.

Review by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, California State University, San Marcos
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 18

Roland Barthes, Travels in China. Edited and annotated by Anne Herschberg Pierrot; translated by Andrew Brown. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2012. xi + 226 pp. Notes and index. $19.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0745650807.

Review by Haun Saussy, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 19

Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy, eds., Screening Integration: Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in Contemporary France. Lincoln & London: Nebraska University Press, 2011. 282 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0803228252.

Review by Florence Martin, Goucher College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 20

February Reviews

Daniel J. Sherman, French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xii + 248 pp. £29.00. (hb). ISBN 978-0-22675-269-3.

Review by Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 21

Rousseau Online: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Collection complète des oeuvres, http://www.rousseauonline.ch/.

Review by Angela Hunter, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 22

Arnault Skornicki, L’économiste, la cour et la patrie. L’ économie politique dans la France des Lumières. Paris: CNRS editions, 2011. 446 pp. Bibliographie, index nominum, table des matières. 28 €. ISBN: 978-2-271-07238-2.

Compte-rendu par Loïc Charles, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) et Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED).
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 23

Didier Michel, Blondel de Nouainville: L’itinéraire d’un noble normand 1753-1793). Cherbourg-Octeville: Éditions Isoète, 2012. 214 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, appendices, indices, bibliography, glossary. 23 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-35776-042-4.

Review by Edward J. Woell, Western Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 24

Eric Saugera, Reborn in America: French Exiles and Refugees in the United States and the Vine and Olive Adventure. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011. xii + 572 pp. Maps, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8173-1723-2.

Review by R. Darrell Meadows, Kentucky Historical Society.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 25

Frederick C. Schneid, Napoleonic Wars. Washington, D. C.: Potomac Books, 2012. 121 pp. Bibliography. $14.95 U. S. (pb). ISBN 978 -1-59797-209-3.

Review by Ralph Ashby, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 26

Guillaume Ansart, ed. and trans, Condorcet: Writings on the United States. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. 147 pp. $62.95. ISBN 978-0-271-05381-3.

Review by Thomas C. Sosnowski, Kent State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 27

Richard Neupert, French Animation History. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. xviii + 192 pp. Figures, plates, references, further reading, and index. $115.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4443-3836-2; $94.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-4443-9257-9.

Review Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 28

Thomas Hinton,The Conte du Graal Cycle: Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval, the Continuations, and French Arthurian Romance. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012. x + 277 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and index of manuscripts. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-8434-285-9.

Review by Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 29

Pierre Bras and Michel Kail, eds., Simone de Beauvoir et la psychanalyse. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2011. 348 pp. 35.50€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-296-56713-9.

Review by Linda L. Kick, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 30

March Reviews

Zachary Sayre Schiffman, The Birth of The Past. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. With a foreword by Anthony Grafton. xvi + 316 pp. Notes. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN978-1-4214-0278-9.

Review by Carol Symes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (March 2013), No. 31

Allan Mitchell, The Devil’s Captain: Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011. 120 pp. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-85745-114-9.

Review by Pascal Ifri, Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (March 2013), No. 32

Jeremy Jennings, Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. viii + 548 pp. Chronology and index. $185.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-198-20313-1.

Review Michael C. Behrent, Appalachian State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (March 2013), No. 33

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Rethinking the Political: The Sacred, Aesthetic Politics, and the Collège de Sociologie. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011. xv + 294 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7735-3901-3.

Review by Sandrine Sanos, Texas A & M University- Corpus Christi.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (March 2013), No. 34

Sudhir Hazareesingh, In the Shadow of the General. Modern France and the Myth of de Gaulle. New York: Oxford University Pres, 2012. xiv + 238 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb); £18.99 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19- 530888-4.

Review by Andrew Knapp, University of Reading, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (March 2013), No. 35

Antonin Cohen, De Vichy à la Communauté européenne. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2012. 427 pp. 25.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-2-13-059472-7.

Review by Irwin Wall, University of California, Riverside and New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (March 2013), No. 36
Response by Antonin Cohen, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense


April Reviews

Philippe Büttgen and Christophe Duhamelle, eds., Religion ou confession: Un bilan franco-allemand sur l’époque moderne (XVIe – XVIIIe siècles). Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’hommes, 2010, 609 pp. 35.00€. (pb). ISBN 2735112691.

Review by Charles Lipp, University of West Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013), No. 37

Jon Balserak, Establishing the Remnant Church in France: Calvin's Lectures on the Minor Prophets, 1556-1559. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. 224 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. (hb). $123.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-90-04-19144-0.

Review by Jeannine Olson, Rhode Island College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013) No. 38

Stein Tønnesson, Vietnam 1946: How the War Began. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xxiv + 361pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9780520256026; $27.95. U.S. (pb). ISBN: 9780520269934; $27.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN: 9780520944602.

Review by David W. Del Testa, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013), No. 39

Margaret Simons and Marybeth Timmermann, eds., Simone de Beauvoir: “The Useless Mouths” and Other Literary Writings. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xi + 408 pp. Notes on contributors and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-252-03634-7.

Review by Ashley King Scheu, Eckerd College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013) No. 40)

Frédéric Bozo, Marie-Pierre Rey, N. Piers Ludlow and Bernd Rother, eds., Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. vii + 358 pp. Introduction, bibliography, notes on contributors, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-85745-288-7.

Review by Michael H. Creswell, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013) No. 41

Matthew G. Stanard, Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. xiv + 387 pp. Images, chart, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8032-3777-3.

Review by Sarah Van Beurden, Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013), No. 42

Paula J. Birnbaum, Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities.Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 358 pp. Illustrations, and appendix. £70.00. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6978-4.

Review Karen E. Brown, Trinity College, Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013), No. 43

Eric Jabbari, Pierre Laroque and the Welfare State in Postwar France. Oxford University Press, 2012. vi + 188 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £57.00. (hb). ISBN 0199289638.

Compte-rendu par Bruno Valat, Centre Universitaire J.-F. Champollion, Université de Toulouse.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013), No. 44

Marion Fontaine, Le Racing Club de Lens et les “Gueules Noires.” Paris: Les Indes savantes, 2010. 291 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and photographs. €29.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-84654-248-7.

Review Philip Dine, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013), No. 45

May Reviews

William A. Peniston and Nancy Erber, Queer Lives: Men’s Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France. Lincoln, Neb. and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 292 pp. $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-6036- 8.

Review by Scott E. Gunther, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013), No. 46

Tyler Stovall, Paris and the Spirit of 1919: Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism, and Revolution. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xii + 342 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-01810-3.

Review by Kathryn E. Amdur, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 47

Shannon L. Fogg, The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France: Foreigners, Undesirables, and Strangers. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxii + 226 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-052-1899-444.

Allan Mitchell, Nazi Paris: the History of an Occupation, 1940-1944. New York: Berghahn, 2008. xiv + 230 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl).ISBN 978-1-84545-451-7.

Chris Pearson, Scarred Landscapes: War and Nature in Vichy France. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xii + 253 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-230-22012-6.

Review by Andrew Knapp, University of Reading, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013), No. 48

Miriam Ticktin, Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2011. xvi + 295 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 9780520269040; $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 9780520269057.

Review by Richard Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 49

Martin S. Staum, Nature and Nurture in the French Social Sciences, 1859-1914 and Beyond. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011. xvi + 266 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 979-0-77-353892-4.

Review by Allyson J. Delnore, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 50

Naomi Davidson, Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012. xvii + 299 pp. Bibliography and index. $25.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7831-4.

Review by Bronwyn Winter, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 51

Julie Fette, Exclusions: Practicing Prejudice in French Law and Medicine, 1920-1945. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2012. xi + 314 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-5021-1

Review by Linda L. Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 52

Liana Vardi, The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 328 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN-13: 978-1107021198.

Compte-rendu par Arnault Skornicki, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013), No. 53

Martin Hurcombe, France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War Next Door. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2011. 245 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-2082-8.

Review by Jessica Wardhaugh, University of Warwick, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No.54

John Tresch, The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. xvii + 449 pp. Map, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-81220-5.

Review by Sofie Lachapelle, University of Guelph.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013), No. 55

Louis Clerc, La Finlande et l’Europe du Nord dans la diplomatie française : Relations bilatérales et intérêt national dans les considérations finlandaises et nordiques des diplomates et militaires français, 1917-1940. Bruxelles: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2011. 381 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-90-5201-750-1.

Review by Michael Jabara Carley, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 56

Ludovic Tournès, Sciences de l’homme et politique, les fondations philanthropiques américaines en France au XXe siècle. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2011. 412 pp. 59.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-0254-8.

Compte-rendu par Gérard Bossuat, Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 57

Marc Humbert and Yoschimichi Sato, eds., Social Exclusion: Perspectives from France and Japan Sato: Tohoku University, 2012. xiv + 162 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-920901-69-1.

Review by Marion Demossier, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 58

Owen White and J.P. Daughton, eds., In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 324 pp. Contributors, notes, photos, select bibliography, and index. $74.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-539644-7.

Review by Roger B. Beck, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 59

Patricia Simons, The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe: A Cultural History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xvi + 327 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and figures. $99.00. U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-1107004917.

Review by Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 60

David Hopkin, Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiv + 296 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521- 51936.

Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No.61

Nicolas Delalande, Les Batailles de l’Impôt: Consentement et résistances de 1789 à nos jours. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2011. 445 pp. 24.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-02-096448-7.

Review by Martin Horn, McMaster University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013), No. 62

Raf Geenens and Helena Rosenblatt, eds., French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi + 318 pp. Notes, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-01743-6.

Review by R. S. Alexander, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 63

Robert Fox, The Savant and the State: Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. viii + 394 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4214-0522-3.

Review by Peter Jones, University of Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 64

Robert Ziegler, Satanism, Magic, and Mysticism in Fin-de- siècle France. Basingstoke (UK) and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. vi + 229 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-230-29038- 3.

Review by David Harvey, New College of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 65

Sean L. Field, The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor: The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 2012. x + 407 pp. $45.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 10: 0-268-02892- 3.

Review by Joanne Maguire Robinson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 66

Sharon Kinoshita and Peggy McCracken, eds., Marie de France: A Critical Companion. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012. x + 230 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781843843016.

Review by Mark Cruse, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 67

Siân Reynolds, Marriage and Revolution: Monsieur and Madame Roland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xv + 326 pp. $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-956042-4.

Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 68

Condorcet, Political Writings. Steven Lukes and Nadia Urbinati, eds. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xlv + 209 pp. Editors’ introduction, notes, bibliography, notes for further reading and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-107-02101-3. $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-107-60539- 8.

Review by Robert H. Blackman, Hampden-Sydney College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 69

Aurelian Craiutu, A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012. xix + 338 pp. Index. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0691-14676-8.

Review by William Olejniczak, College of Charleston.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013), No. 70

June Reviews

Ari Blatt, Pictures into Words: Images in Contemporary French Fiction. Lincoln and London: Nebraska University Press, 2012. x + 249 pp. Images, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0- 8032-3805-3.

Review by William Cloonan, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No.71

Charlotte Baker, Enduring Negativity: Representations of Albinism in the Novels of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2011. viii + 218 pp. Bibliography and index. $51.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-0179-4; $51.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-3-0353-0110-6.

Review by David Gascoigne, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013), No. 72

Christie Davies, Jokes and Targets. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011. xi + 278 pp. References and index. $85.66 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-253-35619-2; $28.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0 -253-22302-9.

Review by Alleen Pace Nilsen, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 73

Debbie Lackerstein, National Regeneration in Vichy France: Ideas and Policies, 1930-1944. Farnham, U.K. and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. 267 pp. $124.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546- 6721-6.

Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 74

Edward Baron Turk, French Theatre Today: The View from New York, Paris, and Avignon. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011. xxix + 367 pp. Figures, notes, select annotated bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-58729-992-6.

Review by Les Essif, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 75

Miranda Frances Spieler, Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. 296 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780674057548.

Review by Naomi J. Andrews, Santa Clara University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 76

Janet E. Snyder, Early Gothic Column-figure Sculpture in France: Appearance, Materials and Significance. Farnham, United Kingdom and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. xx + 266pp. 203 b&w illus., 20 color plates, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $119.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-0065-3.

Review by Linda Seidel, University of Chicago, emerita.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 77

Jean-Luc Chappey, Bernard Gainot, Guillaume Mazeau, Frédéric Régent and Pierre Serna, Pour Quoi Faire la Révolution. Marseille: Agone, 2012. 200 pp. 15.00€. (pb). ISBN-10:2748901614.

Review by Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 78

Barbara Will, Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. xviii + 274 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0231-152624; $26.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-0-231- 15263-1.

Review by Karen Leick, Wilbur Wright College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013), No. 79

Nicholas de Villiers, Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. xii +218 pp. Notes and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8166 -7570-8; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8166-7571-5.

Review by David A. Powell, Hofstra University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 80

Rachel Stone, Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xx + 399 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $99 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-00674- 4.

Review by Valerie L. Garver, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 81

Sara McDougall, Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late Medieval Champagne. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 216 pp. Notes, appendix and bibliography. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4398- 7.

Review by Anne E. Lester, University of Colorado, Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 82

Sheila Crane, Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xi + 352 pp. Maps, figures, plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $82.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978- 0-8166-5361-4; $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8166-5362-1.

Review by Mark Crinson, University of Manchester, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 83

Bernard Barbiche and Christian Sorrel, eds., La Jeunesse Étudiante Chrétienne, 1929-2009: Actes de la Journée d’Étude Organisée par le Centre National des Archives de l’Église de France. Paris, 7 décembre 2009. Lyon: Equipes Religions, Sociétés et Acculturation (RESEA) du Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LAHRA, UMR 5190), 2011. 283 pp. Notes, table of abbreviations, and bibliography. 20.00€ (pb.) ISBN 9782953792812.

Review by Gearóid Barry, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No.84

Geffrei Gaimar, Estoire des Engleis/History of the English. edited and translated by Ian Short. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. liii + 496 pp. £150. ISBN 978-0-19-956942-7.

Review by Jean Blacker, Kenyon College.
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